Public education system is the real boondoggle

In The Star on April 14 the esteemed Matthew Tully wrote about the alleged $1.7 million boondoggle that Glenda Ritz inherited. How about Tully writing about the multibillion-dollar boondoggle created by the the teachers union that Ritz has pledged her allegiance to?

We will likely never get a straight answer on this video system, since the only thing politicians and their bureaucrats can do is play partisan politics, regardless of their party affiliation. However, we do know that Albert Einstein defined insanity as continuing to do things the same way and expecting a different outcome. The teachers union, Ritz and others continue to push pouring more money into a failed system. Even after adjusting for inflation, we spend more per student now than 20 years ago; yet the results are horrendous.

Is a new video system something that will help? Who knows, but what we know for sure is that the current system will not improve results. All we've gotten is disengaged parents and students, failing infrastructure, and teachers union members with better benefits than those of their employers (that's us, the taxpayers). Maybe it's time to abolish the old system and start anew.

Dave Poling

Indianapolis

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Public education system is the real boondoggle

In The Star on April 14 the esteemed Matthew Tully wrote about the alleged $1.7 million boondoggle that Glenda Ritz inherited.